2017 World Men's Handball Championship
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| Host country |  France |
| Dates | 11–29 January |
| Teams | 24 (from 5 confederations) |
| Venue(s) | 8 (in 8 host cities) |
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The 2017 IHF World Men's Handball Championship, will be the 25th event hosted by the International Handball Federation and will be held in France from 11 to 29 January 2017.[1]
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Venues
The championship will be played in eight venues Paris-Bercy, Rouen, Nantes, Metz, Albertville, Montpellier, Lille, and Brest.[2] All the venue capacities are the capacity for handball events.[3]
| Lille | Paris | Nantes | |
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| Stade Pierre-Mauroy | AccorHotels Arena | Exponantes – Hall XXL | |
| Capacity: 27,500 | Capacity: 15,700 | Capacity: 10,800 | |
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| Montpellier |
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| Park&Suites Arena | |||
| Capacity: 9,853 | |||
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| Albertville | |||
| La halle de glace Olympique | |||
| Capacity: 6,500 | |||
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| Rouen | Metz | Brest | |
| Kindarena | Arènes de Metz | Brest Arena | |
| Capacity: 5,700 | Capacity: 5,127 | Capacity: 4,000 | |
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Bidding process
Denmark and France were bidding to host the 2017 Men's World Championships. The IHF Council awarded the Men’s and Women’s World Championships 2017 at their meeting on the fringes of the Women’s World Championships in São Paulo, Brazil on Thursday 15 December 2011.[4]
Denmark was the co-host of the 1999 Women’s World Championship and host of the 1978 Men's World Championship. Denmark has also hosted the Women's EHF EURO twice and was awarded with the Men's EHF EURO 2014.
France hosted the Men's World Championships in 1970 and 2001 and was host of the 2007 Women's World Championship.
Qualification
Twenty-four teams will participate in the final tournament. France, as hosts, are automatically qualified. Since an additional automatic qualification spot is given to defending champion holder which is the same team - France, this berth is given to the next best placed team from the last World Championship - losing finalist Qatar. That leaves 22 places available for the best teams of each continental qualification tournament, the winners of an additional European qualification competition and an additional intercontinental qualification tournament.[5]
| Competition | Dates | Vacancies | Qualified |
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| Host nation | 15 December 2011 | 1 | France |
| 2015 World Championship | 15 January – 1 February 2015 | 1 |  Qatar |
| 2016 Asian Men's Handball Championship | 15–28 January 2016 | 3 |  Bahrain Japan Saudi Arabia |
| 2016 African Men's Handball Championship | 21–30 January 2016 | 3 |  Angola Egypt Tunisia |
| 2016 European Men's Handball Championship | 15–31 January 2016 | 3 |  Croatia Germany Spain |
| 2016 Pan American Men's Handball Championship | 11–19 June 2016 | 3 | |
| European qualification | 9 | ||
| Additional qualification tournament | 1 |
Qualified teams
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1 Bold indicates champion for that year
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2 Italic indicates host country for that year
Schedule
The schedule was announced on 23 September 2015.[6]
References
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